passionate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare (“to be affected with passion”); see passion.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)

1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
2. Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
   • Prior

     Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.

3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.

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Synonyms

• (fired with intense feeling): ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.

Related terms

• passion
• passive
• passivity
• patience
• patient

Translations

fired with intense feeling

• Afrikaans: Passievol
• Basque: sutsua (eu)
• Catalan: apassionat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 熱情, simpl. 热情 (pinyin: rèqíng)

• Czech: vášnivý (cs) m
• Danish: lidenskabelig (da)
• Esperanto: pasia (eo)
• Finnish: intohimoinen (1), kiihkeä (1), tulinen, palava
• French: passionné (fr)
• German: leidenschaftlich (de)
• Hungarian: szenvedélyes (hu)

• Italian: appassionato (it)
• Japanese: 熱烈 (ja) (netsuretsu)
• Korean: 불타는 (ko) (bultaneun)
• Latin: passionatus (la)
• Maori: remurere (mi)
• Old English: hātheort (ang)
• Portuguese: ardente (pt) m
• Romanian: înflăcărat (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: dian, dìoghrasach, feargach
• Serbo-Croatian: žarki (sh) m
• Spanish: apasionado (es)
• Vietnamese: đam mê (vi), dể giận (vi)

Noun

passionate (plural passionates)

1. A passionate individual.

Verb

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)

1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].

External links

• passionate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• passionate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Adjective

passiōnate

1. vocative masculine singular of passiōnatus